The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America Contributor(s): Spencer, Jon M. (Author), Ross, Richard E. Vander (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0814780717 ISBN-13: 9780814780718 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: Most Americans remain oblivious of a new racial phenomenon that may radically alter the political landscape of the United States. In recent years, dramatic increases in racial intermarriage have given birth to a generation of mixed-race children whose interracially married parents refuse to allow them to be shoehorned into neat, pre-existing racial categories. The parents, through organizations they have founded or joined, have lobbied aggressively for the category "multiracial" to be added to official racial classifications at the state and federal levels, including the United States census. Since a nonracial society is one of the stated goals of the multiracialists, Spencer suggests that the undoing of racial classification will come not by initiating a new classification - which will only give Americans the impression that mixed-race people can be neatly classified - but by our increased recognition that there are millions of people who simply defy classification. |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Minority Studies |
Dewey: 973.04 |
LCCN: 96045791 |
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.27" W x 9.26" (0.99 lbs) 232 pages |
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Publisher Description: With a foreword by Richard E. Vander Ross |
Contributor Bio(s): Spencer, Jon M.: - JON MICHAEL SPENCER is Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Richmond. |